THE FAMOUS New York firm of publishers, St Martin's
Press, which had previously published several books by
David Irving and requested him to provide
jacket-puffs to promote the works of their other authors,
contracted to publish his biography Goebbels.
Mastermind of the Third Reich in April 1996. SMP
came under savage assault from the Anti-Defamation
League from February 1996, and their chairman Tom
McCormack, who had visited Irving in London and dined
with him over the previous years, suddenly became A Denier.
SMP dumped the book, the product of eight years' research,
in an unprecedented action of jibbering, craven, panic.

Press statement issued by Abraham H Foxman
National Director of the Anti-Defamation League,
New York

ADL ASTONISHED THAT PROMINENT
PUBLISHER WILL ISSUE BOOK BY NAZI APOLOGIST

New York, NY, March 22 [1996]...The
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said it was "astonished"
to learn that St Martin's Press, a prominent American
publishing house, would publish and promote as serious
scholarship the work of known Holocaust Denier and Nazi
apologist, David Irving. Following is the text of the letter
sent by Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, to Mr. Roy
Gainsburg, President, St. Martin's Press, Inc.:

We were astonished to learn that an institution of
your prominence and reputation will publish and promote as
serious scholarship David Irving's Goebbels: Mastermind of
the Third Reich.

Website note:
Abraham Foxman, wealthy and
controversial chief of the Anti Defamation League,
likes to refer to himself as a "Holocaust
survivor." As a biography
on this website shows, he was not even born when
Hitler invaded his native Poland, and he was looked
after by Polish Catholics throughout the war; his
parents also "survived".

Surely you must know that Mr. Irving is a well-known
Holocaust Denier and an apologist for the Nazi regime. A
pseudo-scholar, he has no academic credentials as a
historian and his writings on Hitler, Nazis and the
Holocaust have been consistently shown to be replete with
errors, oversights, poor research and fantasy.

We would hope that you will at least categorize
the book as a work of fiction and not allow it to be passed
off as a legitimate historical tract.

["The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the
world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through
programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and
bigotry."]